2. “Assemble and listen, you sons of Jacob;listen to Israel, your father.
3. Reuben, you are my firstborn,my might and the beginning of my strength,outstanding in dignity, outstanding in power.
4. You are destructive like water and will not excel,for you got on your father’s bed,then you defiled it – he got on my couch!
5. Simeon and Levi are brothers,weapons of violence are their knives!
6. O my soul, do not come into their council,do not be united to their assembly, my heart,for in their anger they have killed men,and for pleasure they have hamstrung oxen.